view forums/views/attachments.py @ 943:cf9918328c64

Haystack tweaks for Django 1.7.7. I had to upgrade to Haystack 2.3.1 to get it to work with Django 1.7.7. I also had to update the Xapian backend. But I ran into problems. On my laptop anyway (Ubuntu 14.0.4), xapian gets mad when search terms are greater than 245 chars (or something) when indexing. So I created a custom field that would simply omit terms greater than 64 chars and used this field everywhere I previously used a CharField. Secondly, the custom search form was broken now. Something changed in the Xapian backend and exact searches stopped working. Fortunately the auto_query (which I was using originally and broke during an upgrade) started working again. So I cut the search form back over to doing an auto_query. I kept the form the same (3 fields) because I didn't want to change the form and I think it's better that way.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Wed, 13 May 2015 20:25:07 -0500
parents 89b240fe9297
children 7e0c3cbd3cda
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"""
This module contains views for working with post attachments.

"""
import json

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden
from django.http import HttpResponseBadRequest
from django.http import HttpResponseNotFound

from forums.models import Post


def fetch_attachments(request):
    """
    This view is the target of an AJAX GET request to retrieve the
    attachment embed data for a given forum post.

    """
    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
        return HttpResponseForbidden('Please login or register.')

    post_id = request.GET.get('pid')
    if post_id is None:
        return HttpResponseBadRequest('Missing post ID.')

    try:
        post = Post.objects.get(pk=post_id)
    except Post.DoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponseNotFound("That post doesn't exist.")

    embeds = post.attachments.all().select_related('embed')
    data = [{'id': embed.id, 'html': embed.html} for embed in embeds]

    return HttpResponse(json.dumps(data), content_type='application/json')